Health Ministry recruits Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in fight against dengue


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 07 Jul 2019

KUALA LUMPUR: The number of dengue cases could see a downward trend after the Health Ministry kicked off a programme to release Aedes mosquitoes injected with Wolbachia bacteria in an effort to stamp out the disease.

This follows a pilot project in 2017 carried out in eight areas in Selangor that showed reductions of between 50% and 80% of dengue cases in each location.

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